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You Are A Elf posted:Back to the Future Part II predicted 16:9 aspect ratio HDTVs, videoconferencing from work and home, touchscreen tablets, and home automation by 2015. It also predicted a lot of nonsensical fantasy Jetsons poo poo because it was “the future.” The very brief period where fax machines were assumed to be omnipresent in the future.
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You Are A Elf posted:Back to the Future Part II predicted 16:9 aspect ratio HDTVs, videoconferencing from work and home, touchscreen tablets, and home automation by 2015. It also predicted a lot of nonsensical fantasy Jetsons poo poo because it was “the future.” Also the global domination of Japanese business culture, a major psychic preoccupation of 80s America
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Aug 14, 2022 10:54
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It really is funny how when sci-fi sometimes gets the future right probably on accident in parody especially. Reminds me of how the cyberpunk classics work all too well because they aren't written by nerds trying to figure out how the tech actually works, they're by people who have an understand of the human relationship with technology and how it's used. Looking at it broader, BttF2 actually gets a lot right if you look at the way all those fax machines including the one in the suitcase work- an interlinked office system between work, home, and mobile devices, simultaneous international teleconferencing and communication on multiple channels. And they probably weren't thinking anywhere near that much about it. Also reminded suddenly that one of the first things we see of Doc Brown's home is the big ridiculous automated breakfast machine he has set up, and a week's worth of uneaten breakfasts piled up to indicate that he hasn't been around for that long and didn't think to turn it off.
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Aug 14, 2022 12:34
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It really is funny how when sci-fi sometimes gets the future right probably on accident in parody especially. Reminds me of how the cyberpunk classics work all too well because they aren't written by nerds trying to figure out how the tech actually works, they're by people who have an understand of the human relationship with technology and how it's used. Star Trek TNG accurately predicted tablets but not wireless connectivity or networked file sharing. So people carry around stacks of tablets with notes for different subjects.
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Aug 14, 2022 15:21
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:Star Trek TNG accurately predicted tablets but not wireless connectivity or networked file sharing. So people carry around stacks of tablets with notes for different subjects. Weirdly I feel like that works if you consider that thanks to replicators, tablets can literally be printed out, and a lot of people might specifically print a PADD for working on a particular topic or project and toss it back in when they're done. The way the holodeck works also ends up a surprisingly good analogy to not just media but video games, especially with the emphasis on customised and personal programs along with popular mass-market ones and the Ferengi commercialising them. Characters make and share their own like game mods and custom scenarios like RPGmaker games, often using stock assets.
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Aug 14, 2022 15:24
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:Star Trek TNG accurately predicted tablets but not wireless connectivity or networked file sharing. So people carry around stacks of tablets with notes for different subjects. Wasn't the reason was that it was for security reasons and they were so limited to only for the use of whatever section you were working in. As you could probably do anything to any other part of the ship from anywhere. Meaning Wesley would destroy the ship every 30 minutes if they were limitless.
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Aug 14, 2022 15:59
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We have just 10 years for Taco Bell to win the restaurant franchise wars and for the three seashells to start appearing next to shitters. Hell, we have just a few months left for Soylent Green to make it to market. What’s the freakin’ holdup?????
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Aug 14, 2022 17:41
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Yeah I wouldn't be shocked if sometime in the nearish future societies decide to purposefully "nerf" some of our everyday tech simply to protect people from the inherent dangers of single devices being so capable of controlling and damaging so much of life. Combined with human error and the average person's propensity for emotional actions, deviancy, thrills and carelessness, it starts to make sense why tech limitations would be welcome. It would be assumed though, that a lot of poo poo hits the fan first to force such change.
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Aug 14, 2022 17:42
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You Are A Elf posted:Hell, we have just a few months left for Soylent Green to make it to market. What’s the freakin’ holdup????? Huel has been around for like a decade. Hell, the name doesn't even try to hide the twist
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Aug 14, 2022 18:02
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The very brief period where fax machines were assumed to be omnipresent in the future. In Japan this is very normal.
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Aug 14, 2022 18:08
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The very brief period where fax machines were assumed to be omnipresent in the future. A few years ago I was at a library to print something out. And as I was walking in, someone was at the front desk doing something. And I overheard her saying how she doesn't have email, because she doesn't have a computer at home. But she does have a fax machine. I can verify she isn't elderly, because I recognized that she's someone from my middle school class.
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Aug 14, 2022 18:14
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medical places and gov still use fax.
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Aug 14, 2022 18:19
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After you've removed all your teeth, your computer is the last piece of government Spyware you need to remove from your home. A cell phone logged into Facebook and Google is OK though. You just have to wrap it in foil.
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iamsosmrt posted:Yeah I wouldn't be shocked if sometime in the nearish future societies decide to purposefully "nerf" some of our everyday tech simply to protect people from the inherent dangers of single devices being so capable of controlling and damaging so much of life. Butlerian Jihad, I tell ya. On the other hand I'm also reminded of the future episode where Lisa's English fiance talks about how glad he is they got rid of those batty old designs, and modern planes are all triplanes with like a dozen wings each. Sure it's a gag, but I always thought it rings pretty funny as to how unpredictable technological development can be and sometimes they end up going back to earlier designs and improving them to the point where they surpass later ones, and how people get used to the new very quickly.
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Aug 15, 2022 03:34
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One tech prediction I think a lot of people (even folks with tech backgrounds) got wrong in the 90s was how rapidly mobile computing would advance and become more affordable. To paraphrase examples: You weren't going to sit on the the beach, telecommuting to work, because you weren't going to take your $2000 laptop to the edge of the water and drag out a phone cord to connect online. You weren't going to take your computer into the goddamned shower to listen to a radio show. Etc. God, I think I just found out old Max Headroom episodes are on a free service right now and I want to check them out to see how close they were to predicting the future in comparisons to later shows.
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Aug 15, 2022 05:17
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I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt.
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JediTalentAgent posted:One tech prediction I think a lot of people (even folks with tech backgrounds) got wrong in the 90s was how rapidly mobile computing would advance and become more affordable. To paraphrase examples: You weren't going to sit on the the beach, telecommuting to work, because you weren't going to take your $2000 laptop to the edge of the water and drag out a phone cord to connect online. You weren't going to take your computer into the goddamned shower to listen to a radio show. Etc. I mean, put it that way and they were only like a decade off.
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Aug 15, 2022 05:26
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2nd Amendment posted:I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt. ^^^^
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2nd Amendment posted:I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt. oops, left my monitor off
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2nd Amendment posted:I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt. another successful prediction
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Aug 15, 2022 11:35
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Futurama predicted coin operated suicide booths in public places which is so quant. Obviously it will be a mobile app with microtransactions.
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Aug 15, 2022 13:31
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Get a 5 star pull on the suicide booth to get a personalised execution by your favourite vtuber
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Aug 15, 2022 13:33
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I still think this is probably one of the low points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua7dN2mKyMs
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2nd Amendment posted:I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt.
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Aug 20, 2022 18:50
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I was just remembering this today and thinking it might be the funniest Simpsons moment I ever experienced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXenlBxD7_k Just eyes streaming laughter
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Aug 20, 2022 20:18
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so just saw the episode which i somehow avoided seeing all these years, where they give bart the ritalin or whatever medicine to calm him down and holy poo poo i thought this was something that was a season 16+ episode but it was actually season 11! it's the same season with the mel gibson episode!  JediTalentAgent posted:One tech prediction I think a lot of people (even folks with tech backgrounds) got wrong in the 90s was how rapidly mobile computing would advance and become more affordable. To paraphrase examples: You weren't going to sit on the the beach, telecommuting to work, because you weren't going to take your $2000 laptop to the edge of the water and drag out a phone cord to connect online. You weren't going to take your computer into the goddamned shower to listen to a radio show. Etc. yeah, the smart phone revolution is legitimately one of the most amazing and world changing events in recent memory, probably second to the introduction of the internet.
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Aug 21, 2022 20:51
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I don’t remember much about the Max Headroom show except for it left me with a strong impression that I was the only person who was watching it.
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Ralph Hurley posted:I don’t remember much about the Max Headroom show except for it left me with a strong impression that I was the only person who was watching it. i got the dvd set for like $2 and that was the same impression i got. the last episode is even like "what kind of wacky adventures will they get into next?" at the end
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Aug 21, 2022 23:04
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It's on Tubi. I've been considering on watching it.
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I watched the first episode of it a while ago, because the old tv hijacking thing got me curious about the actual show every now and then. And it was probably the most boring thing I've watched in a long time. The descriptions on wiki type sites made it sound alot more interesting with all the post-cyber-punk future setting stuff. But then it's basically just a guy that hit his head leaving work, and now he's in a computer. I'm sure it does more after the one episode. But that was enough for me to move on. I guess I was expecting it to be more like the Weird Science tv show, and less of a realistic news station setting.
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What about War of the World's, I remember one season was really good and one was really bad and it has the dude from max headroom in it. Is that anywhere? I also rewatched the Maxx from liquid television recently. that should have gotten a movie instead of aeon flux. But Aeon Flux should have gotten a sweet rear end late 90s video game.
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Aug 22, 2022 01:55
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War of the Worlds was a weird show because season one was kind of an X-Files alike (although I think it was before the X-Files) where they were in a secret war with the Martians but then season two did a time skip and had a post Martian takeover.
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Aug 22, 2022 14:56
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the mel gibson episode is bad but it did give us the dog with the shifty eyes which i still reference all the time
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mactheknife posted:the mel gibson episode is bad but it did give us the dog with the shifty eyes which i still reference all the time "It was symbolism! He was mad!" runs through my head constantly.
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Keromaru5 posted:"It was symbolism! He was mad!" runs through my head constantly. proof that in that era even the bad episodes had a handful of excellent moments
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Hrist posted:I watched the first episode of it a while ago, because the old tv hijacking thing got me curious about the actual show every now and then. And it was probably the most boring thing I've watched in a long time. The descriptions on wiki type sites made it sound alot more interesting with all the post-cyber-punk future setting stuff. But then it's basically just a guy that hit his head leaving work, and now he's in a computer. later episodes are better, but it never gets great
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Improbable Lobster posted:later episodes are better, but it never gets great I had a few playing in the background a few nights ago and this sort of mirrors my feelings. At the same time it feels like it comes off as a bit more accurate than other depictions of the near-future with a few of its plot points and storylines, so if nothing else, it's satisfying that aspect of my curiousity when it comes to revisiting the show.
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Data Graham posted:I was just remembering this today and thinking it might be the funniest Simpsons moment I ever experienced I still think Ned’s “okay” is one of best line reads in the history of the show.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hw5z44OqD8 Josh Weinstein advertising a restaurant to local internet fat man is the lowest point of the Simpsons.
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